Place-based mixed reality for Old San Juan
Immersive tours, cinematic storytelling, and educational AR that help the city reveal its stories in new ways — launching soon.
About VxOSJ
VxOSJ is building a collaborative, community-led framework for place-based mixed reality in Old San Juan. The work blends cultural storytelling, tourism utility, education, and partner-driven innovation into a reusable platform that can grow from a single exhibit to a city-wide experience.
Rather than treating augmented reality as a novelty, VxOSJ is developing a layered system of experiences that can guide visitors through the city, transform historic spaces into cinematic stages, and bring environmental learning into immersive indoor environments.
Each project is designed to be useful to visitors, valuable to partners, and scalable across museums, schools, tourism operators, and cultural organizations.
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Current projects
VxOSJ is turning Old San Juan into a living stage for guided discovery, historical storytelling, and environmental education through layered mixed reality.
Project 01 — Guided Discovery
Step off the ship and let Old San Juan guide you. A self-directed AR tour blends local storytelling, treasure hunts, and wayfinding to reveal the city block by block.
Project 02 — Cinematic Mixed Reality
El Morro becomes the stage. Guests move freely through a 40-minute mixed-reality action movie where timing and position shape which storyline unfolds.
Guests choose a vantage point and a moment in history — Drake’s Raid (1595), Clifford’s Siege (1598), Naval Bombardment (1898), and Fort Brooke & the First Shots of WWI (1915) — so no two visits play out the same way.
Project 03 — Immersive Education
A movable AR exhibit that gives climate science, ecology, and STEM a voice — told through a fictional forest language inside a basketball-court-scale experience.
Digital content anchored to real places and controlled indoor sets.
A flexible experience model that grows from phones to headsets.
Every experience is designed to be memorable and meaningful.
Open to museums, cultural groups, schools, businesses, and developers.
Why it matters
VxOSJ is designed to turn cultural discovery into a memorable public experience while giving local institutions and developers a durable framework for future storytelling and commerce.
Short, intuitive experiences make it easier to navigate Old San Juan and discover stories that might otherwise be missed.
Immersive storytelling creates a richer way to teach culture, climate, ecology, and technology.
Schools, museums, businesses, and developers can contribute content under a shared, curated framework.
Contact
We welcome conversations with museums, schools, tourism operators, cultural organizations, developers, and sponsors who want to help shape the next generation of place-based mixed reality.
800.705.2034
contact@428group.com